Word: indoor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shepard is a little man with a big job. Starting last Monday, five-foot, seven Inch Shepard climbed upstairs from the bare type of office the H.A.A. is prone to give its coaches in the Indoor Athletic Building, and began sorting out fifty competent larger varsity candidates. So far," he says, rustling a typewritten varsity roster, "I don't even know their names. I'll just have to drill them every day until I know what they...
Jethroe's speed is phenomenal. Clay Hopper, manager of the Royals, said that Jethroe is a better base stealer than Jackie Robinson, another Montreal alumnus. Last June, Buzzy Bavasi, the eminent business manager of the Royals, arranged a pre-game foot-race between Jethroe and Ed Conwell, former indoor sprint champion of the United States. In a 75-yard sprint, Jethroe beat Conwell by a comfortable five-yard margin. In a little publicized re-match, however, Conwell emerged a winner...
...today, although it has always been regarded as important. It has been presided over by a varied and colorful line of ministers and ambassadors: ¶Stratford Canning (1820-23), who reported with lordly condescension: "I have met with few instances of impertinence . . . Chewing and smoking appear on the decline; indoor spitting is also less common...
Warren launched a Golden Wedding Club to counteract the divorce wave, borrowed graduation dresses for high-school girls who could not afford them, helped raise $55,000 for a clubhouse for the Indoor Sports, an organization of shut-ins. He became San Diego's best-known newspaperman, and one of its best-loved citizens. Four years ago, when the rival Journal hired him away from the Union, hundreds of readers came with him to follow his new column, "People We Know...
...outdoor impresario estimates that 80% of drive-in fans are not, and never have been, regular indoor moviegoers. The best customers are 1) moderate-income families who bring the children to save on babysitting, 2) the aged and physically handicapped and 3) farmers and factory workers ducking the ritual of dressing up to go to a movie in town. The drive-ins are also popular with young neckers, but exhibitors deny that their places are, in Variety's phrase, "passion pits with pix." Their righteous defense: nothing happens that doesn't go on in a balcony...